Your calendar reveals your true priorities

A full calendar is a badge of shame, not a badge of honor.

A lot of founders spend their time based on reacting. So people will email them and they'll wake up and they'll respond to emails, and suddenly their email sets the agenda.

It's still insane how many product managers, leaders of all kinds just run the schedule of back to back meetings, 30-minute review, big meaty topics, you run out of time, run to the next thing. It doesn't work.

I actually cut my one-on-one roster by default, and the idea is not that I don't want to spend time one-on-one with people, but rather that I found that the... Just having more standing one-on-ones actually precludes me from engaging in more timely topics.

I want to make most meetings very timely and very informed by real alpha. There's got to be some kind of value and insight to seed that with.

On Sunday evenings, I actually write a list for myself of if we got these things done this week, that is a good week. I make a list and honestly, then, that drives a lot of just where I decide to spend my time.

It's not really about productivity, it's not about time management. It's really just about, look, at any given day, we're lucky if we can have one great moment where we have our peak attention and we use it well.

Things can sometimes be a mess outside of that, and you still feel really good about your days. You still feel really good about the way you're spending your energy.